Xianyuan Farm

The news of a large number of corpses appearing in the ruins of the ancient city could not be concealed. Soon, the news spread everywhere, attracting not only more tourists, but also reporters from various newspapers and radio stations.

At first, they all interviewed Director Yao. Director Yao could not bear this verbal bombardment and immediately retreated to the excavation site and never came out again. They had no target and didn't know where to get the news from. Many people immediately turned their targets to Gu Hongyu.

Gu Hongyu had no time to chat with reporters, so he suddenly had an idea and pointed the spearhead at Uncle Azha. As a person who was willing to do anything for the development and prosperity of Honghu Village, Gu Hongyu thought with evil taste that Uncle Azha would be able to answer all the reporters' interviews.

I thought that I would be fine after getting rid of the disturbance of a wave of reporters, but I didn't expect that the results of the excavation of Honghu Village would be more popular after being published and reprinted. Many newspapers and TV stations actually sent reporters to stay in Honghu Village.

Later, Uncle Azha was a little afraid of the reporters who asked tricky questions and had all kinds of tricks. In the end, he hid in the vegetable greenhouse and orchard and never returned to the village.

The progress of the excavation has been carried out in a tense and orderly manner. After the news of the discovery of the thousand-person grave pit was reported last time, not only the county paid attention to it, but even the province sent a group of scientific expedition teams to Honghu Village, which raised the scientific expedition strength here. With so many backbone forces joining, the progress was also accelerated.

A few days later, when Gu Hongyu stepped into the ruins of the ancient city again, it seemed as if he had traveled back to the ancient times of the previous dynasty. The desolate atmosphere of the years attracted his heart in one fell swoop.

Even though the outermost wall was broken and buried by wind and sand, the highest place after being sorted out is now 5 meters high. There is a battlement at the top of the wall, with huge stones stacked neatly. You can imagine how magnificent it was when it was intact.

Director Yao said that the barracks were located near the city gate and the city wall. In ancient times, soldiers in the city lived there. If the city encountered an enemy or went to war, they could rush to the battlefield to defend their homes as quickly as possible.

I don’t know whether the barracks were severely damaged during the war or they were originally very simple. At this moment, you can’t see any buildings above the surface. Even a wall has collapsed completely. You can only infer what the barracks looked like and how big they were by the foundation stones on the ground.

After walking through the barracks, it is said that it is the Goulan Market. The thousand-person grave pit also appeared in the market. The scale of the market is very large. If the ancient scene is restored, the market must sell goods from all over the country, and the varieties must be very diverse.

Go further in. There is a residential area. The first ones are low buildings. There are very few ruins of courtyard walls. Director Yao also introduced that these places should be where civilians live. The houses are relatively dilapidated, so there are naturally not many remaining relics.

By the way, the passage that Gu Hongyu walked on was the stone road that was prepared in the early stage.

After walking along the stone road and passing the slums, there is a crossroads. Continue forward and the remaining ruins will be much more obvious. The tall courtyard wall is also built with stone materials. There are some stone pillars inside the courtyard wall. The scientific expedition team also cleared out several places with stone pavilions.

At the end of the road is the small hill not far from the swamp. Under the hill is a large-scale building complex. Gu Hongyu guessed what it was without the scientific expedition team members telling him. It was the residence of the highest leader of this town.

The remaining ruins of the tall courtyard wall are more than 2 meters high at this time. The entrance and exit gate is also very magnificent. Both sides of the gate are built with whole stones. There are wide stone steps under the gate. However, the top of the gate is now empty. The eaves above should be damaged or eroded by time.

There is an empty field inside the courtyard wall. It is quite large and may be the place where soldiers and generals were trained at that time. The house of the city lord was obviously built more exquisitely. The remaining walls of several rows of houses can clearly show the layout of the house at that time.

Suddenly, an archaeologist ran out from a ruin in the city lord's courtyard in a hurry. Gu Hongyu saw that it was Cui Peng who found many corpses that day.

"Xiao Cui, what are you doing? You are in a hurry!" Gu Hongyu stopped Cui Peng.

Cui Peng did not stop, turned to Gu Hongyu and said: "Brother Gu, there is a discovery inside, this time it is an amazing discovery..."

"Don't run in a hurry, tell me!" Gu Hongyu was anxious when he saw Cui Peng running farther and farther.

"Director Yao and his team found written records in a basement. Now the equipment to protect the paper has not been brought in. I will ask someone to bring it in. Soon we will know the truth about the current appearance of this place!" After saying it in one breath, Cui Peng ran out again.

Finally, there is a written record. Gu Hongyu was ecstatic to hear the news.

At least when talking about this ancient city ruins to outsiders in the future, he can also speak out its origin and the reason for its destruction.

Thinking of this, Gu Hongyu also stepped into the courtyard wall that Cui Peng just rushed out of.

Walking inside, there are several stone pillars standing stubbornly behind the courtyard wall, and several of them fell to the ground. Looking at the distance between the stone pillars, Gu Hongyu estimated that this is the reception hall of the city lord. This room is at least hundreds of square meters. The hall in the past was really amazing!

But Gu Hongyu was a little stunned. He didn't see anyone inside. According to what Cui Peng said just now, shouldn't Director Yao be inside? But why didn't he see anyone?

After listening carefully, Gu Hongyu finally heard the voice of someone speaking somewhere with his keen hearing. He passed a place where residual bricks were piled up. There were many exquisite stone bricks like this in the City Lord's Mansion, and some of them were better preserved. They are all still intact, but now they can no longer arouse Gu Hongyu's curiosity at all.

The human voice came from a small hole. Between several stone walls, Gu Hongyu saw a piece of furniture that was obviously a stone bed, and only 2 meters away from the stone bed was a small hole. It looked like this It's the city lord's bedroom or study. Under the small hole should be the city lord's secret room.

That's it. Gu Hongyu, who was stunned, stepped in.

"Hey, Xiao Gu is here!" Director Yao, who was talking, said unexpectedly when he saw Gu Hongyu.

"Director Yao, Master Duan... you are all here. What have you found?" Gu Hongyu asked with a smile.

"There are too many things. There are not only many ancient cultural relics, but also many books. Look, there is one on the stone platform over there. We didn't dare to touch it, but I know the words on the surface of the book. Maybe this is There’s a memo written by the city’s leaders!” Master Duan said happily.

At this time, Gu Hongyu expressed doubts: "Director Yao, Master Duan..., it should be said that this place was destroyed by the invasion of foreign enemies, but there are no ancient cultural relics unearthed in other places, why were they discovered here?"

"Haha, Xiao Gu, this is easy to understand. The foreign enemies who invaded here must have only thought about plundering this place and did not think about occupying it for a long time. This is a basement. The invaders did not find this basement when they searched here, but in Hidden mechanisms are no match for the long years, and we haven’t found them yet!” Director Yao said with a smile.

One of the experts from the provincial capital who joined later said: "Fortunately, there was still such a secret room left at that time, otherwise we wouldn't know how much more work it would take to uncover the mystery here!"

With Gu Hongyu joining in, everyone started talking again. Soon Cui Peng led several people carrying instruments and equipment and walked in. The secret room was not small, but it still seemed crowded with many people. Gu Hongyu knew nothing about protecting documents and materials. I didn't want to stay inside any longer.

But he didn't take it lightly. With these written materials, the truth here will surely be revealed to the world.

One day later, Director Yao and his team worked overtime overnight and compiled very detailed documentation, completely solving the mystery of this ancient city ruins.

Tracing back to the original historical truth, this ancient city ruins was originally a border town that existed for hundreds of years during the Tang and Song Dynasties. During the Northern Song Dynasty, it was often invaded by the Liao Kingdom. As a militarized town, all buildings here were built in the style of a fortress. , has been stationed in the north to defend against the invasion of Liao Kingdom.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, with the decline of the Song Dynasty, the funding for military expenses in border towns was even more exploited by the superiors. It can be said that very few ended up in the hands of soldiers. Fortunately, the geographical location here is not bad. , even in the late Song Dynasty, there were still many merchants doing various businesses to maintain the normal operation of the town.

However, as time went by, when one day the Liao Kingdom sent cavalry south, such a border town caused destruction. It was not because the sergeants in the town were greedy for life and afraid of death, but because the soldiers were equipped with equipment. Inferior armaments and lack of money to maintain giant crossbow equipment led to the fall of the entire city.

Anyone who has read the history of the Liao will know that every time the Liao people went south during the Song Dynasty, in addition to plundering food, they also robbed the Han population. All the old were killed, and the young and strong were treated as two-legged sheep and enslaved. Countless women were raped and raped by them.

The records of the city lord were full of disappointment with the powerful officials of the Song Dynasty, and he was afraid of the coming of the Liao cavalry. Just when he was in panic, the entire record came to an abrupt end. The last date left in the record should be Not long before the Liao people captured this place.

The truth of history is before our eyes. Gu Hongyu guessed that most of the victims in the thousand-man grave were sergeants who were tortured or were old and frail. Otherwise, a military town would definitely have more than this population, and the rest would be The others must have been kidnapped by the Tatars.

This is a tragic truth, and it is also a sad history that makes people sad but not heard. A powerful country just sank in the long river of history. Some historians once said: "The Song Dynasty was not defeated by foreign invaders, but was destroyed by foreign invaders." Clique war!"

Facing the ruins of the ancient city, Gu Hongyu still has a lot to do!